History Literature / ThePendragonAdventure

* AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles: An early edition of the first book mentions Mark having "cutesy hentai" posters on his wall. This was changed to generic "anime" posters in later reprints.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Quigs, a deadly species that take the form of that world's wild animal. Earth has dogs, Denduron has bears, Cloral has sharks, Eelong has gars (wild humans. Not to be confused with the concept of "Gar"), etc.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Subverted by ''The Never War''. [[spoiler:Played straight in the final chapter of ''The Soldiers of Halla''.]]

* SpinOff: The ''Literature/MorpheusRoad'' trilogy is a spin-off from this series.

* WhamLine: Bobby asks what they call the entirety of the planet he's on, since it's not Ibara. The answer? [[spoiler:"Veelox."]]

* ThreeAmigos: Bobby, Mark, and Courtney.

%%* FantasticNuke: Tak in Denduron.

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%%* MadeOfExplodium: Tak -- [[spoiler:the real turning point of Denduron]].

* MergedReality: What the Turning Points are all about. Bobby wants each Territory to go forth on its own, but Saint Dane ''also'' wants to make (what in his opinion is) a better world through something called The Convergence.

%%* OurSoulsAreDifferent: See above.

* RandomTransportation: Bobby Pendragon, like all other Travelers, moves from dimension to dimension wherever the flumes take him. Getting where you want to go isn't usually an issue. ''When'' you get there is another story; it appears that while the traveller doesn't have absolute control over this, the flume takes the traveller to when he needs to be there.

%%* SmallSecludedWorld: The island of Ibara.

%%* {{Tsundere}}: Aja.

%%* UnderwaterCity: Faar.

* UnPerson: What happens to Bobby, his family and other Travelers when they begin their journeys. In Bobby's case, his records are stricken from any school or government database, his phone number (complete with graffiti) is stricken from the phone book, heck, even Bobby's ''house'' is erased from existence, leaving an empty lot where the house once stood. The only records still around are people's memories of the Traveler and their journals. In book 3, it is revealed that [[spoiler:travelers have no history, so they can never appear on the Third Earth simulator.]] This allows Bobby to figure out that [[spoiler:Harlow is Saint Dane.]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Saint Dane, again. [[spoiler:All the travelers get this power once they arrive in Solara. They have to use it very sparingly though. Bobby only turns to smoke with it.]] Hilarity ensues when Bobby tries to use it himself without actually knowing how it works, and it boils down to him trying to will it into happening:

%%* NewEden: Third Earth.
%%* NewspaperDating: Used whenever Bobby arrives on First Earth.

** Bobby, frequently. The first screw up was the turning point for Denduron. [[spoiler: [[StuffBlowingUp Tak]], while discovered by the rebels, had not been able to be used in huge amounts besides pea-sized amounts for their slingshots. However, due to Bobby bringing his flashlight with him from second earth, the rebels find a way to harness more Tak to create a bomb.]]
** One of the more egregious examples is in [[spoiler: "The Pilgrims of Rayne"]] when Bobby decides to trap Saint Dane by [[spoiler: blowing up the flume, so neither can leave]] This particular example has Bobby holding the IdiotBall as well, since by this point it's been shown that [[spoiler: most territories have more than one flume. Why would Rayne be an exception? What makes this even more of a case of holding the IdiotBall is that Bobby already knows at this point that Ibara is actually Veelox's future. Therefore, he already knows there's at least another flume in the territory: the one in Rubic City. There isn't any indication that the old flume has been destroyed by the time Bobby decides to blow up the Ibara flume.]]
** Saint Dane's plans usually consist on inducing several characters into this trope, including the Travelers. [[spoiler:In fact, his entire plan ''depends'' on Bobby falling into this trope.]]
* NoirEpisode: ''The Never War'''s "A-Plot" is set in 1937 for the most part, so it has a prominent FilmNoir feel to it.

%%* PantheraAwesome: The klee.

* PrefersTheIllusion: This is the reason that [[BigBad Saint Dane]] wins his first territory. [[spoiler:The people of Veelox refuse to abandon the [[LotusEaterMachine virtual reality world Lifelight]], which gives users a chance to simulate living a perfect life. Eventually, so many people give up their real lives that society collapses and millions die when the workers stop maintaining the Lifelight pyramids.]]

* RefusalOfTheCall: Bobby didn't want to be a Traveler. Elli Winter was supposed to be the Traveler from Quillan, but she turned down the position because she felt she wasn't ready and was currently past the DespairEventHorizon. Kasha refuses longer than everyone else.
* LaResistance: The Milago people in ''The Merchant of Death'', the revivers in ''The Quillan Games''. The Yanks in ''The Soldiers of Halla''.

* TheUnreveal: In both ''The Quillan Games'' and ''The Pilgrims of Rayne'', it appears that Saint Dane is going to explain the true nature of the Travelers, but instead, he gives us something nonsensical and annoying.

* WhatYearIsThis: Near the beginning of ''The Quillan Games'', Bobby starts asking people on Quillan a lot of questions about the games and Blok and such, which makes them regard him as a crazy person and flee his presence.

* PlankGag: When Bobby completes his TrainingFromHell with Loor and Alder and is awarded a real [[SimpleStaff fighting staff]], he launches into a long series of these. He'd nearly whack one of them with the stave end as he turns to the other to apologize for nearly whacking ''them'', and then spins around to apologize for ''that''...

# ''The Merchant of Death''
# ''The Lost City of Faar''
# ''The Never War''
# ''The Reality Bug''
# ''Black Water''
# ''The Rivers of Zadaa''
# ''The Quillan Games''
# ''The Pilgrims of Rayne''
# ''Raven Rise''
# ''The Soldiers of Halla''

In addition to the main series, there is also a trio of {{prequel}}s, ''Pendragon: Before the War'', showing what happened to the nine other Travelers besides Bobby before their journey began; a ''Guide to the Territories of Halla'' Volume 1, with no Volume 2 in sight; and a graphic novel version of ''The Merchant of Death''. And the obsessive reference-spotters will note that [=MacHale=]'s movie ''Film/TowerOfTerror'' along with his ''Literature/MorpheusRoad'' series take place in the same continuity.

A series of modern fantasy books written by DJ [=MacHale=].